NELL SHER
IDAN 


Nell Sheridan is a Brooklyn-based Californian designer, artist, social media wizard, and middling tennis player– not in any particular order but always all four. She started her design education focusing in fashion with university summer design programs in the years leading up to enrolling at George Washington University to study graphic design in 2019. In 2020 she decided to pursue a larger program and transferred to Boston University where she graduated in May of 2023 with a BFA in Graphic Design.

        Her work experience includes design internships at a prominent New England graphic design and branding firm, a California-based brand consulting start-up, a global healthcare company, a famous Napa wine and spirits label, as well as dozens of freelance design jobs. Nell's most recent and ongoing merchandising, design and social media internship with a multi-location vintage clothing company has reignited her long-held fascination with fashion.

        Her practice focuses on editorial design, branding, fashion, luxury visual merchandising, creative direction, collaboration, and learning everything she possibly can about the world around her. Her dyslexia helps her see the world differently– obsessively noticing details and being fascinated with form and color, and pursuing uniquely creative thinking. 



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The Sight of Sound 


Risograph printed show at Boston University, fall 2022.
Included a 15 second risograph animation, 2 mixed media and risographed zines, and 20 riso postcards.

The Sight of Sound, Zine


The Sight of Sound, Animation

This project was open endedly prompted by the phrase “Sight of Sound”.

The fall of my senior year I took 7 classes and was overwhelmed with a myriad of topics ranging from experience design to statistics to a course on songwriting, I admittedly signed up for because I thought it would be fun and easy. It ended up being an intense writing course focusing on the work of Bob Dylan, America's greatest songwriter. I had never listened to Dylan, and frankly wasn’t a huge fan of the harmonica, but decided to embrace my awkward songwriting class and commit to the bit.

I was taken aback by how much I learned from Dylan and being a cripplingly bad signer I made the class's album cover and learned to love Dylan's words.

From a visual perspective I loved the music video for Subterranean Homesick Blues, where Dylan holds hand written cards with the lyrics on them and drops them rapidly as the song plays. And can now say my favorite song is “Don’t Think Twice It’s All Right” off the album Free Wheelin.

For this assignment, I wanted to visualize the analog elements of Subterranean’s music video and show the “sight” of the “sounds” in my stop motion RISO animation. Making a Risograph printed animation is delightfully tedious and at times painful but the analog feel of this work is the best way I could make tribute to my time in songwriting.


Risograph Promotional Post Cards for show opening

Risograph promotional post cards for the opening reception.




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